AMDs live stream from Computex 2016 has just ended, we did some live reporting from the event in this news bulletin I will share the highlights. AMD as expected revealed Radeon Polaris GPU updates in the form of the Radeon Rx 480. A graphics card that will perform just above 5 TFLOPS With it's 150 TDP it'll have 36 CUs (x 64 shader processors per CU = 2304 Shader processors).

The card will be available in both 4GB and 8GB versions and has 256-bit GDRR5 memory at 256 GB/s (= 8 Gbps effective much like the GeForce GTX 1070). The card will run in the 1267 MHz range on it's boost clock.

The card will start at 199 USD for the 4GB model. 8GB models will also become available. The product did not get a launch date.

In the conference Zen (8cores/16threads) have been mentioned. Zen is sampling to tier 1 customers and in Q3 will be sampling to all customers and thus a launch is expected in Q4. Then the 7th Gen APUs based on four Excavator cores have been word of topic. Please browse through the conference below.

Live Stream Updates:

LiveStream is now up and running, we'll report and update in bullets during the presentation.

Talks about PC gaming and AMDs vision on it. He talks slowly towards Polaris of course. Talks a bit about VR (which is the trendy hip thing to talk about in relation to graphics cards of course). Raja immediately jumps to cost, indicating they will offer cost of their products should be acceptable.

AMD states it wants to deliver high-perf, low cost low-power solution to democratize VR. Mentions one product, Radeon RX 480X, will sell at 199 USD. That is the 4 GB version of course, expect higher-end versions and 8GB version to hover in the 250 USD range.

Raja holds Radeon RX 480 in the air.

It is rated as just over 5 TFLOPs perf, has 36 CUs (x 64 shader processors per CU = 2304 Shader processors). The card will be available in both 4GB and 8GB versions and has 256-bit GDRR5 memory at 256 GB/s (indicative for a 2,000 MHz clock = 8 Gbps effective). The card will have a 150 Watt TDP and DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 support.

Raja takes stab at Nvidia with a 700 USD solution, and shows GTX 1080 against Rx 480 in (of course) Ashes of Singularity, claiming similar performance.

The and comparison against GTX 1080 was in fact two Rx 480 cards (less then 500 USD), thus they demoed 2-way Crossfire to compare to GTX 1080. If scaling is 2x then divide 63 FPS in half and that is one RX 480. So a GTX 1080 would do 59 FPS and a Radeon Rx 480 should do let's say 32 FPS. Raja leaves the stage. So the Rx 480 is the one Polaris card that we'll see end of June, there was no mention of the Rx 490 whatsoever.

Also mentioned is A10, A12 and FX series APU processors of the 7th Generation. Gaming on these APUs is mentioned, covered is FreeSync, VSR etc. Offers support for low power DDR4 memory. A9 7th Gen is announced as well, for mobile.

The AMD A-series APU will have four Excavator cores and eight GCN graphics cores. High throughput HEVC/H.265 support at low power playback. Supports 128-bit DDR3 and DDR4. Some 7th Gen APU based notebooks now get displayed, incl some convertible ones.

Lisa Su takes over the conference, needs to talk about one more thing. ZEN (yah!). The Zen architecture 8-cores, 16 threads is now confirmed. Calls it the return for desktop performance.

Shows Summit Ridge. Zen is a high performance CPU, that scales across multiple market segments like desktop, servers. They expect to sample to tier 1 customers in the next weeks.

In Q3 more wide spread sampling. Thus a launch is imminent in Q4 for Desktop consumers (as expected).

Above photo is the processor based on Zen architecture. Lisa Su has now closed the conference. So in short, announced is the 7th Gen APUs, en has been confirmed and previewed and obviously AMD's Radeon Rx 480 is announced. The last two products did not get a final release date mentioned.

The price is definitely nice. I hope it kicks the entire range of cards down a bit. I really wanted something new this summer, but I can't justify spending $650+ on it. Now that EK isn't making EVGA blocks, I basically need an 1080FE to do water cooling. Screw spending $700 on that.

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#5282449 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:14 AM
That rx480 seemed pretty lame...
Of course an ashes of singularity benchmark. But with lower settings and a dual gpu against a single gtx1080?

The price is definitely nice. I hope it kicks the entire range of cards down a bit. I really wanted something new this summer, but I can't justify spending $650+ on it. Now that EK isn't making EVGA blocks, I basically need an 1080FE to do water cooling. Screw spending $700 on that.
There are differences, you are right. I hope that it was a mistake and that the actual numbers are real. You can literally get four of these for the price of a 1080 FE on the street, which is completely ridiculous. I don't believe it will do that. It might take a lot of share from people like me who where on the cusp of getting a 1070, but this thing probably will cost 2/3 of a good 1070, even on its most expensive implementations.

That rx480 seemed pretty lame...
Of course an ashes of singularity benchmark. But with lower settings and a dual gpu against a single gtx1080?
While costing a bit more than half of it.

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#5282452 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:20 AM
That rx480 seemed pretty lame...
Of course an ashes of singularity benchmark. But with lower settings and a dual gpu against a single gtx1080?

$400 vs $700 I guess.

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#5282453 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:21 AM

$400 vs $700 I guess.

The 8GB version must be $250.

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#5282456 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:22 AM

The 8GB version must be $250.

Ah good point.

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#5282457 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:23 AM

The 8GB version must be $250.

The slide was saying

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#5282458 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:24 AM

The slide was saying

You're right. Yeah, somewhere around there.

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#5282459 Posted on: 06/01/2016 04:25 AM

The 8GB version must be $250.

This isn't even to mention that there are higher clocked 1080 models at lower price points than the FE already on sale.

But really it's Nvidia's fault for pricing the FE so high, of course everyone is going to compare everything to that.